What would be the point?
The dairy industry for the past three years has been hoping to sell you some under the guise of just plain “milk,” so that chocolate and strawberry varieties that contain artificial sweeteners would no longer need to carry a special label.
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acknowledged a 2009 petition from the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation that seeks to drop the FDA requirement to label milk and other dairy products as “artificially sweetened” when they contain sweeteners such as aspartame.
The FDA asked the public to submit data, information and comments related to aspartame and other artificial sweeteners in milk last week.
The dairy lobby argues the opposite, claiming that allowing aspartame in milk would make it a healthier product and reduce childhood obesity by offering milk with fewer calories.
The move comes as milk’s popularity is in serious decline and other beverages, including soy and rice milk, take on more market share.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/aspartame-milk_n_2764729.html
Dammit! I’m trying to get away from aspartame altogether. It’s an insidious sweetener that has specific withdrawal markers when you stop consuming it, most notably a low grade, persistent headache.
This is awful! What the HELL is happening to this world guys? Is NOTHING sacred?
My thoughts, exactly. Unless American's tastebuds have become so perverted that they can no longer taste natural sweetness.
They’re talking about not having to identify sweeteners in FLAVORED milk, like chocolate milk or strawberry milk.
Ain’t gonna happen.